History Film / BossLevel

* ImportantHaircut[=/=]TraumaticHaircut: In one of their duels, Roy manages to cut half of Guan Yin mane. For him, that's a sign that he has enough hang of their duel to ''finally'' beat her. For her, it's humiliating and makes her ''really'' pissed.

-->'''Guan Yin''': Mother fucker!

* IdiotHero: Roy being a dumbass is probably his most definitive trait. It adds to the comedy of the situation - he's a competent killer and can deal with all the action bits, but piercing together the banally simple plot is way over his head. This even includes killing people first, asking questions never.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Whenever he survives long enough, Roy visits his favourite bar and proceeds to get drunk there, until the assassins on his tail inevitable track him down. It seemed to be his standard "plan of the day" routine prior to the start of the film.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Roy is stuck reliving a day where everyone seems to be trying to kill him. He repeats the day when he dies, which happens every day. [[spoiler: Even once he figures out how to survive or just dodge the assassins send after him, an EarthShatteringKaboom still kills him and still resets the loop]].

* IronicNickname: Part of Roy's coping with his predicament is giving those to the killers send after him: "Smiley" has rotten teeth, while "German twins" are a pair of [[BlackViking black dudes]]. He also assumes it must be the case with Guan Yin own alias, given Avalokiteśvara is a goddess of mercy.

** Since Roy never had a chance to learn the names of the killers send after him, he instead provided them with variety of nicknames, raging from actual nicknames to just ironic names. "Pam" is confused when he "names" her in one of their confrontations.

* SuperPersistentPredator: It takes Roy ''forever'' to figure out the real reason why the killers send after him are so persistent and always find him easily is a tracker on him.

* {{Troll}}: Once Roy figures out how to beat the killers send after him, he toys, mocks and outright trolls them in their confrontations. Most notable is his (implied to be one of many) duel with Guan Yin, where he performs one of her exaggerated stances, synchronised with her own move, simply to take a piss at her.

* WeaponOfChoice: Various assassins send after Roy use highly specific weapons

* GoldFishPoopGang: The CarnivalOfKillers sent after Roy would normally be a total overkill. However, over first 140 loops, Roy learned all their moves, tricks and techniques (well, [[MasterSwordsman except for Guan Yin]]), greatly reducing the actual threat they posses. Once he [[spoiler: figures out he has a tracking device implanted in his tooth]], he easily disposes of most of them ''in a single loop'' and then just easily dodges them in the following loops.

* GoldFishPoopGang: The CarnivalOfKillers killers send after Roy would normally be a total overkill. However, over first 140 loops, Roy learned all their moves, tricks and techniques (well, [[MasterSwordsman except for Guan Yin]]), greatly reducing the actual threat they posses. Once he [[spoiler: figures out he has a tracking device implanted in his tooth]], he easily disposes of most of them ''in a single loop'' and then just easily dodges them in the following loops.

** Roy has ''two'': first, it's the InMediasRes situation, where he's dealing with the killers send after him in an organised and detached fashion. Then it proceeds with a flashback of how he even got stuck in the loop and he's in turn presented as not too bright bulb that's terrible at reading people and their motivations.
** Ventor has one, doing a long monologue reminiscenting [[NoodleIncident his time in Burma]]: how much he enjoys violence, to the point of fetishising it, and how deranged he is in general.

** Really, his entire run at getting inside Dynow lab, which takes him roughly 20 runs, and then spending next ''50'' trying to get pass Guan Yin. Even the successful duel we are shown is implied to be an n-th attempt, as he's clearly doing things from memory, rather than genuinely reacting to her moves.

** The CarnivalOfKillers feels straight out of ''Film/SmokinAces'', especially as far as "Pam", "Esmeraldo" and "Smiley" are concerned.

** The black twins are always using two examples of the same weapon. And most of the time, this means Walther P38 pistols.

** Guan Yin herself escapes this trope... until you realise that she's using an alias anyway, thus rendering the fact she's introducing herself each and every time is moot.

* TakeThat: For a game involving and referencing video games, the film takes a pretty obvious swipe at adult gamers by [[NerdsAreVirgins inviting mockery]] of the proprietor of an arcade.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Ventor manages to confuse Guan Yin sword with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. That despite his office being ''[[EpicFail entirely decorated with Chinese weaponry]]'' and even few terracotta soldiers. When Guan Yin tries to correct him, he dismisses her and continues with his EvilGloating instead.

* CelebrityParadox: At one point Roy title-drops '''Donnybrook'' and it's dragged-out fight scene. Creator/FrankGrillo, who plays Roy, was one of the leads in that movie, too.

* AndThisIsFor: After successfully luring "Pam" into a trap for the first time, and using for it [[ItMakesSenseInContext Hitler's personal handgun]], Roy delivers following one-liner:

* AndThisIsFor: After successfully luring "Pam" into a trap for the first time, and using for it [[ItMakesSenseInTheContext Hitler's personal handgun]], Roy delivers following one-liner:

-->'''Roy''': No Pam, I'm going to shoot you... (double-taps her in the heart area) [[ItMakesSenseInTheContext That's for the Jews!]]

* ConsummateProfessional: "Pam" is very professional, especially when compared with the rest of the bunch send after Roy. Notably, not only she's doing it as just a job, but has NothingPersonal stance when Roy is about to kill her - she just calmly lets it slide as part of her trade and consequence of being outplayed.

-->'''Roy''': No Pam, I'm going to shot you... (double-taps her in the heart area) [[ItMakesSenseInTheContext That's for the Jews!]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Invoked by Roy. Smiley weapon of choice is a surveying harpoon. He shot Roy with it and then proceed to drag him across the streets to his death. Roy repays in kind when he turns the table on his assassins.

* MadBomber: Kaboom is a DemolitionExpert that likes to personally plant explosives on his targets and then detonate them.

** To {{Homage}} levels, with the famous CombatPragmatist scene from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and consequently, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. Roy invokes this scene when facing Guan Yin in Dynow offices only to find out his gun is empty (like Indy being without a gun in ''Temple''), making him easily defeated.
** The tracking device being painful to remove and then leading the assassins after him into a wild goose chase is very reminiscent of ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.

** Roy has ''two'': first, it's the InMediaRes situation, where he's dealing with the killers send after him in an organised and detached fashion. Then it proceeds with a flashback of how he even got stuck in the loop and he's in turn presented as not too bright bulb that's terrible at reading people and their motivations.

* MadBomber: Kaboom is a bomb expert.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In one of their confrontations, Ventor tries to paint himself as this to Roy, claiming that he wants to prevent such things like UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Discussed toward Guan Yin sword, as it allows her to perform {{Clean Cut}}s and easily beheaving Roy in single stroke. This is explicitly related to the blade, rather than skill of the wielder, since even Ventor manages to behead Roy with it.

* CatchPhrase: Guan Yin has a very cheesy one. On top of that, Roy had to hear it ''about 200 times'', giving him a GetItOverWith reaction.

* CatchPhrase: Guan Yin has a very cheesy one. On top of that, Roy had to hear it ''about 200 times'', giving him a GetItOverWith reaction

** Really, his entire run at getting inside Dynow lab, which takes him roughly 20 runs, until spending next ''50'' trying to get pass Guan Yin.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Roy's running commentary dips into this frequently, especially in the beginning when he's over 100 attempts in and he's already bored with everything.

* GoldFishPoopGang: The CarnivalOfKillers killers send after Roy would normally be a total overkill. However, over first 140 loops, Roy learned all their moves, tricks and techniques (well, [[MasterSwrodsman except for Guan Yin]]), greatly reducing the actual threat they posses. Once he [[spoiler: figures out he has a tracking device implanted in his tooth]], he easily dispose of most of them ''in a single loop''.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Roy is stuck reliving a day where everyone seems to be trying to kill him. He repeats the day when he dies, which happens every day.
* IdiotHero: Roy being a dumbass is probably his most definitive trait. It adds to the comedy of the situation - he's a competent killed and can deal with all the action bits, but piercing together the banally simple plot is way over his head. This even includes killing people first, asking questions never.

* ShoutOut: To {{Homage}} levels, with the famous CombatPragmatist scene from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and consequently, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''. Roy invokes this scene when facing Guan Yin in Dynow offices only to find out his gun is empty (like Indy being without a gun in ''Temple''), making him easily defeated.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Roy is quite cocky, so he both dismisses [[MasterSwordsman Guan Yin]] ''and''

* CatchPhase: Guan Yin has a very cheesy one. On top of that, Roy had to hear it ''about 200 times'', giving him a GetItOverWith reaction

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Discussed and defied. Roy reminds Guan Yin of that scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', but even after he tries to shoot her with dual uzis, he still doesn't manage to hit her once before she kills him, forcing him to take sword lessons to beat her.
* NoEnding: [[spoiler:When Roy saved his family and killed the villains, he pointed out the Osiris Spindle will eventually still destroy the world. Jemma said that Roy will need to go into the machine to reset his day one last time in order to break the time loop and stop the Osiris Spindle (If he fails in the next attempt, he dies for real). The movie ends right after Roy enters the machine]]. Nothing is explained how this actually stops the Osiris Spindle.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In one of their confrontations, Ventor tries to paint himself as this to Roy, claiming that he wants to prevent such things like UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]].

''Boss Level'' is a 2021 action sci-fi film directed by Joe Carnahan. It stars Creator/FrankGrillo as an ex-soldier who is caught in a GroundhogDayLoop in which assassins are trying to kill him for unknown reasons from the very moment he wakes up each morning. Creator/MelGibson and Creator/NaomiWatts co-star.